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Frameworks we like: 2. CakePHP and why?

Another set of developers liked CakePHP and they prefer to stay with this solid web app. CakePHP is one of the most well known frameworks for PHP development. CakePHP considerably decreases development costs and also helps you as developers write very less code. This blog will walk you through the Cake ...

PHP Frameworks we like 1. Zend and why?

Our developers first choice was Zend, reasons? Zend Framework is an uncomplicated, straight forward, open source software framework for PHP 5. Its flexible design allows you to build interactive web applications and services with ease. One of the major highlight is the Model-View-Controller (MVC), which makes the code reusable and trouble-free to ...

PHP Frameworks we like

Developers need to complete the project in time. The client quickly need a stable site or web application which is easy to maintain. This two reasons drive the concept of web application development framework. When the third reason, "the cost" intrudes, there comes Opensource and PHP frameworks to meet everyones ...

My Love Vault – Our new iPhone app. launched

We have our iPhone application successfully approved by apple and available in iTunes. The application’s purpose is to bring different love tools under one roof. With our first version, we have included four different modules and we are planning to bring more features in our future releases. Our first tool is ...

Four Frameworks to perform unit testing in PHP

Doing Unit testing is helps a team to produce quality application with in time by allowing the developer to test the code as soon as they write it. By developing a test document, developers are forced to do rigorous testing before it reaches to QA team. This way the span ...

4 SEO Tools you would have missed

Day-to-Day we see lot of SEO tools in web and many people would have missed useful SEO tools that are not marketed well. Here are four SEO tools that you would have missed and you would be interested to use. Keyword frequency analysis (single words, two and three words) The tool helps ...

Why you shouldn’t duplicate website content?

What exactly do we mean by duplicate content? Websites with identical pages and websites identical to another website on the net is considered as content duplication. Writing a content for a website is entirely a different thing to normal writing. It involves plenty of creative ideas and more importantly it ...

Apple iPhone developer program registration

After a month's time today we have completed our Apple iPhone developer program registration. We have three applications and a game to be tested for our clients and it’s a milestone to do the testing and certification for the application in house. The process goes this way: Register and get an Apple ...

Why Google Webmaster tools?

Google as a search giant knows how to help site owners and webmasters on search index. Time to Time Google team has been updating Google Webmaster Tools list and now its has come to a good form. All over, these tools provide reports on your site visibility, diagnose problems, and ...

To Linkbait or Not to Linkbait

Before starting with the topic let me give you a brief note about link bait and practices so that you would have an idea how it works for you :) Linkbait is one of the task in link building that takes both quantity and quality inlinks, relevant and irrelevant to your ...

Wordpress Ajax resources

1. Ajax powered Wordpress Themes: Alisha provides a list of Ajax powered Wordpress themes. You may want to try one or more.Some of them are good, Some are limted with one or two features like search. Some not found. But worth a look if you plan to use Ajax in your ...

A simple presentation on Cloud computing

"Cloud computing" was a buzz word for me for a long time. It never attracted me after what I could understand from the two words mean to me - though some of the team members were working on it already. However, today I wanted to learn it, in fact, I ...

Sharepoint, Web parts and .NET programming

Few months ago, we started working on Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, offered few different solutions to customers in India and UK. This is not a single technology or tool to just to learn and implement within a short span - it has a wide range of technologies which help ...

The Future Of CSS

Do you work on CSS and like to know more about what you might have to learn to keep you up in the phase?. This slideshow gives you an intro to make you ready.View more documents from Andy Budd.

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10 Top Google tools to get results in Google

Looking for tools around?Â :roll: Do you know that Google offers various handy tools that would help you to maximize your site visibility and drive more leads to your site? Here some top Google tools to increase your sales conversion and ROI 1. Google Search suggest When you type your business services or ...

Know more about PHP frameworks

Here is another nice, well I think it is nice, since it's pretty short and gives you an over view quickly. All PHP developers must find one Framework for them before your client forces you to learn one. :-) Thanks to Ryan and Team for this precise information.

Mobile web development and Standards.

Here is a nice presentation which talks about the standards for Mobile web development.

Will SEO efforts for Bing affect the SERPs in Google?

Not exactly, if you optimize your site for Google SEO factors you will generally do wellÂ for SERPs in all the major search engines.Â In addition you need to do some tweaks in turn for the difference in the algorithm. I have done some research to the sites that lists in Google ...

Questions for Web designers.

Today I revived few questions from Carl Williams of Odin Jobs for a blog entry. I believe every designer should ask themselves to keep the answers with them always. 1. When and how did you get started in web design? 2. What is the single most important attribute/skill a good web designer ...

Do you really need an SEO consultant?

At present you have a website that has been designed and development meeting your business needs and you admire the look and feel of your website, easy user interface and functionality for your customer, and thinking how you and your business will be known to your customers? Then you need to ...

Database Optimization Techniques to Increase SQL SERVER Performance – Part III – Index on multiple columns

Index on multiple columns for SQL performance Since clustered index reorders the table and arranges the data according to the index key, SQL Server allows only one clustered index per table. This results in amazing performance, when you only have to worry about one particular column. If you are in need ...

Database Optimization Techniques to Increase SQL SERVER Performance – Part II – Increase query performance with indexes and statistics

Indexing:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â One of the most advantageous methods for increasing the performance of queries is the formationÂ of efficient indexes.Â A well-built index helps the query to avoid the necessity of scanning the entire table for results. If you have created an index, SQL server will automatically measures and stores the ...

Database Optimization Techniques to Increase SQL SERVER Performance – Part I – Increase SQL Server stored procedure performance

1) Increase SQL Server stored procedure performance with following three tips: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Stored procedures plays a vital role in enhancing the performance of the database. The following three tips will help us to maximize database performance, when stored procedures are used. Use NOCOUNT: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â If NOCOUNT option is turned off, on each operation: ...

Our new site is up! – www.macronimous.com

Our NewÂ business site is up for us from today : www.macronimous.com . The previous site was around 8 years old, and grown up to over 600 pages of static content. A complete makeover was a challenge and our team was able to achieve it in 3 Months.The main changes are, 1. ...

Is Dmoz dead or editors active?

We all know Dmoz is the largest human edited directory in the web and the link juice from DMOZ produces good Google ranking. A large group of editors manages Dmoz and getting your site registered by the Open Directory (http://www.dmoz.org) is vitally important as far as search engine positioning is ...

Using subversion for web development

We use Subversion in Macronimous, and I found it would be interesting to share its benefits and our experience with Subversion. Itâ€™s a bit lengthy entry, kind of Article, But I believe at the end you will find it useful. Web applications are growing tremendously, with more developers involved in finishing ...

10 Things you must know before doing SEO for your Site.

1. SEO is not a onetime process - Like your conventional marketing (Eg. Paper ad), you cannot stop SEO by paying onetime, see results are stop. Remember you have your online competitors working with another SEO team like what you do. Â 2. You need to allow your SEO person to optimize ...

Load and Stress testing – Tools reviewed!

Most of the performance issues occur because of high stress in server.Â You should perform load testing to know how many concurrent visitors your site can serve perfectly. It is difficult to arrange without the help of a set of actual user. It is the proper way of using advanced ...

Using images cleverly for SEO

In general many neglect SEO for images and some avoid due to ignorance. Using images for SEO is as important as adding Page titles and SEF URLs for SEO. Also it helps a lot in Google General Image search, as well as product image search. To start, first step is to ...

Why Cubecart?

Many of our customers who look for Ecommerce solutions find Opensource solutions to build it cost effectively and they like what we recommended, Cubecart!There are reasons:1. Easy to customize (skin based), and this keeps the cost low. 2. You can bring great look and feel with skins, you can make the ...

The colors of SEO Hat

SEO is one of the marketing strategies used for increasing site visibility in search engines. Different people follow different SEO techniques for organic promotion in search engines; some may be ethical, some non-ethical and others intermediate. These practices are colored according to techniques used, compared with the search engines recommendations ...

4 SQL injection methods every PHP programmer should be aware of.

The Problem with all the codes is that the value is not sanitized before it will be sent as a query. All we need to make sure is that we passing the secure data into database. We can send secure data and prevent the data hacking by following the four ...

Simplify Database admin with free MySQL tools

Briefed below are four MySQL tools that are really interesting, and you would like to review them and test them for better DB management experience. They do fairly good job with the database admin management, and good alternates to phpMyadmin.Â Â 1.Â SQL Buddy: A tool that allows you to get more work ...

Drop down Menus for Wordpress CMS – Plugins reviewed

Organizing of content is done better way using drop down menus. But coding them could be a heck of a task. Thanks to some of the finest plug-ins that cater to the drop down menus needs for Wordpress, we can use them in our websites or blogs for easy drop ...

7 Questions you must ask your SEO customer before you start anything!

Â Here are the few (might look silly sometimes) we ask our SEO clients before we do anything, means even before we study their website. 1.Â Describe the type of customers/audiences/visitors that youÂ are targeting with your website. 2.Â What are the products or services that you provide? 3.Â What are your target specific keywords? Do you know ...

Alternatives to Google Analytics to measure your ROI

Our SEO team likes Google analytics, But they still generate some reports manually and simplify some of the reports generate by Google to make it readable to clients. Not all the clients will understand the detailed reports from Google Analytics. They need facts and figures, easily understandable. So, always our ...

Use frameworks – Cut down your web Development cost!

Cost cutting! - This is something everyone always appreciates, particularly during this slowdown.Â People want to spend small or no money, :-) however things need to keep going! You need to cut down the development time, so you can save money, execute more projects and manage to reduce the cost of ...

15 SEO Tips and Hints for 2009

If you are an SEO analyst or specialist here are few techniques which are used widely these days. I am not going to explain the boredom basics,Â which could turn off you :)Â However, if you need to refresh basic and regular tips / techniques you can go to these below topics: (1)Â Search ...

Using dotProject for web project management

Out of my experience in handling various projects for our company, I have realized this one hardcore fact that Project Management is one of the very essential constituents of a project. I was initially going through various PM tools and found dotProject to be a useful tool. Since then our ...

Greetings!

Everyone at Macronimous wishing you a very Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New year 2009!

You still can do SEO with your Flash website

Flash does wonders to sites, making them more visually appealing and interesting. But have you thought how appealing it is for the search engines? The fact that not many of us know is that sites that are completely made using Flash, would be treated as a single page by search ...

Oxite â€“ Opensource CMS in Microsoft way!

Last week there came a surprise from Microsoft, an Opensource CMS. While there are plenty of Opensource CMS applications are available, we may not need another one in the line. However,Â I really appreciate this step from Microsoft. Microsoft named as Oxite, and ASP.NET Model-view-Controller based CMS. This bold open source ...

Measures to reduce your website bounce rate

Have you heard of the term "Bounce Rate" and thinking of what is it and how to reduce it? If you are using Google Analytics it is well and good, in Google Analytics you should have noticed "Bounce Rate" in Dashboard section and Top Content section. Bounce Rate is calculated ...

Using twitter for SEO

Twitter, one of the top free social messaging and micro-blogging site, which helps users send and read text-based posts, is also known as tweets. In twitter, text-based posts are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have registered themselves to receive them. Not only can users ...

SEO techniques Ebook made simpler

Search engine optimization is very important with respect to any online business sites, to get it search engine visible. At the same time it is an ever-updating industry. When done in a proper and standard procedure, by experienced professionals, it is sure to give top long-term results. So we thought an ...

Time Zone Difference â€“ A blessing for the Offshore outsouricng

We all face competition everywhere. Especially in this fast paced life where everyone is expecting speed and efficiency, we ought to give them the best. OffshoreÂ outsourcing not only help in managing your organizationâ€™s work better, but also help in effective and timely completion of tasks.Â We have heard it from many ...

4 places to find great Photoshop plugins and filters

Following the best four series, this time I have chosen 4 sites to find wonderful and useful Photoshop plugins and filters. Though there are thousands of sites offering free Photoshop plugins and filters, searching through the sites and choosing the ones required could be a tedious affair. Am sure this ...

Social Bookmarking as a tool for SEO

What is Social bookmarking? Itâ€™s an easy way to save and share the websites/pages you like, with tags, for better classifications, so that you can revisit them easily. You can also share the URLs you like with your friends, site visitors and networks. Unlike your browser-based book marking, social bookmarking sites ...

Securing your Wordpress site and blog

Hackers like Wordpress sites and your blogs too. With some precautious steps you could avoid your Wordpress driven website being hacked. Wordpress codex has a detailed article on Hardening wordpress, and hence hardening your site. In fact its a guide to help you to find and prevent your PC vulnerabilities, Server ...

Download our new free flash guestbook, easy to integrate with your website

A guest book allows you to keep a check on who is been visiting your website. Getting feedback becomes all the more easy with the all-new guest book from Macronimous. Forget boring forms. The real difficulty in getting feedback is to push the visitor to leave behindÂ little information.Â The fun to use ...

Four Wordpress plugins to create Multimedia rich websites and blogs

Wordpress is a simple and handy platform that is highly used in creating blogs and is also one of my favorite blog platforms, Wordpress plugins that are used along with it can create excellence to sites. Out of many Wordpress plugins that are available, I have chosen 4 that are ...

Top 4 competitor tracking tools

Online competition tracking is not as easy as we all think and we don't know when competitors make different alterations to their websites and fine-tune their keywords to gain top results. The most crucial phase and factor of SEO is competitor analysis, as staying ahead of the competitors is not ...

Social Bookmarking practices in simple steps

Here is aÂ video I like about social bookmarking practices and thought of sharing for those who don't like to spend more time in reading long articles about social Bookmarking and more interested in straight to the pointThis video demonstrates explains how effective and easy social bookmarking practices are and comparatively ...

Web 1.0 Vs. Web 2.0

This post is written based on the requests seen in forums. I still found most of the surfers don't have clear picture about the "difference between Normal design websites and Web2.0". So thought of writing a brief note on Web2.0 Hopefully people who try to know Web 2.0 design standards should ...

How important is effective web content for SEO?

You have a well designed website with perfect usage of flash banners and graphic designs, with proper site navigation and easy accessibility.Â Still do you feel that you are not getting the desired visitors and sales to your site? I suggest you probably need to work on the content in the ...

5 minutes site visitor analysis.

Even before we started using SEO, Just after building the sites we started using a Site visitor analytic tool. Initially we usedÂ Goldstats; It was more than sufficient when we had only 20 pages, and no much SEO really done. It was a nice start.But when we added articles, and Â really ...

10 Minutes SEO Checklist to review your SEO Considerations

This Simple SEO checklist will help you to follow steps to rank your site in major search engines You just need to spend 10 minutes to review your site with below SEO checklist. If you can mark "yes" to most of the SEO considerations thenÂ your site will be having a reasonable ...

Google Chrome – First impression.

A whole new browser. (?) :-) Can't agree to that fully,Â since it is based on Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox components. I personally like the products from Google, and I believe Chrome would also make some difference in the Browser market, though it is available only in XP and Vista. A ...

Know your website enemies!

Do you own a successful internet business? Built a great website and promoting it online? Is website your business gateway? So you value your website very much andÂ itâ€™s time for knowing the attacks your website - your brain child, may face. There are both and good bad eyes looking ...

Cost of SEO

When you plan for your site promotion, there are few things you should keep in mind before working out a cost or make a budget. I will make that as few questions to ask yourself or your marketing team. How important SEO is to your website? Do you want to make your website ...

Immutable Laws of Marketing and online Branding

As a Web Marketing professional, I was attracted byÂ Two books during last week. One is on Marketing - this is for every business in the market and one is for the Internet marketing. Both are from the same author(s). The first book is The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing and ...

Is your opensource CMS flexible enough to accomodate your design?

In a survey, by the Information Architecture Institute, 47.6% of people says "My CMS is not flexible enough to accommodate my design", as a key issue they face with many Opensource CMSs available in the market. This made me to think about the truth behind this. What prevents them from ...

Web2.0 Applications: Are they all making impact?

Its Web2.0 era, and many of us know how a web 2.o site would look like. We are also developing web 2.0 sites, especially Social networking sites, though we still have no clarity on Web2.0 impact in business. But everybody wants to make it. We get at least 2 requests ...

Adding your business details in Wikipedia

Have you ever wondered how to get your business details published in Wikipedia? You might have tried it and found after few days or weeks the links and the content are thrown out. In the following YouTube Video Dr. Ralph F. Wilson interviews Mike Svatek about to do this genuinely. ...

4 Search Engine Results Page (SERP) tracker tool

Search Engine Results Page, which is abbreviated as SERP, is a tool in which, once a keyword is typed in, it shows the results of various web pages where those keywords appear. This is taken from the results of various search engines, thus giving an idea of that particular keywordâ€™s ...

4 Keyword tools

Keywords! The very word has gained so much importance in the past few years, in the field of online marketing. To make the work a bit easier for the keyword writers, there are many tools available nowadays. If one gets an idea of the peopleâ€™s needs and queries that they ...

4 SMO Sites

Social media optimization (SMO), a type of search engine marketing, is a collection of practices used for networking and promotional needs, via word of mouth. This is produced not through family or friends but by the usage of networking in online community sites, video sites, social bookmarking and photo sharing ...

4 tools to track your (online)competitors

4 CVS tools for web development

If you are developing websites collaboratively, say your development teams are working jointly in a project (design or programming) and using CVS or Concurrent Versioning Systems is one good practice to save everyoneâ€™s life before they mess up others code. Assume John uploads his code using FTP at the ...

4 Web collaboration tools

Did you ever wonder how to work efficiently with your offshore team. I am sure you wish to have some better mechanisms than simple emails back and forth. When you like your customers to interact with your team, without you spending much of your time, But at the same if ...

Access our Blog from your Mobile (browser)

Accessing this blog from your Mobile browser is now enabled. Thanks to Alex King of alexking.org. Its a simple Wordpress plugin, Its called Wordpress Mobile edition. Just follow the instructions, activate the plugin, The blog is up for the mobile now, just call blog.macronimous.com from your Mobile browser..and Yes.. ...

Wild ideas – Nokia Marph!

Do you want your phone looks like your wristwatch?, Pen? or even like your arm band? Do you like a phone which never need to charge its batteries? :-) Nokia is working on making this into reality with the support of Nanotechnology. Recently at Design and The Elastic Mindâ€ ...

Do you want to Blog?

So you want to blog. But why? "We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results." â€“ Says Herman Melville. When you want to link your thoughts with others, when ...

Wordpress likes.

Recently we started our Business blog section with Wordpress, Simply we are enjoying it. I would like to share what we like in Wordpress. Overall Wordpress is very easy to install, create the mySQL database and mention the mySQL login credentials in the configuration file, upload them all, Run the setup ...

A story behind Inbound Links!

Many people arise a question â€œLink promotion â€“ Matters quantity or quality?â€ Link promotion proves to be the base for search engine optimization. People try to optimize their sites using strategies like competitor link analysis, identifying thousands of back links, say 10,000; but simultaneously keep worrying over the time consumed in ...

CMS, Ektron and Gold partnership!

Web Content Management solutions save your organization time and money while adding value to your existing Web investments. Several key benefits includes : Anytime, anywhere Web publishing : With some web content managment solutions, content â€œownersâ€ in your organization can securely add or update content from any Web browser. Anytime, anywhere Web publishing: With some web ...

Advices for healthy life

Ramesh has sent me some advices for a healthy life, which I would like to share with our readers. Reduce volume of tea intake Do not eat bread which has JUST been toasted Stay some distance from your cell charger Drink more water in the morning, less at night Do not ...

iPhone SDK

Apple released the long awaited iPhones Software Development Kit (SDK) and the associated iTunes "App Store" and iPhone Developer Program. If you are a developer you can download it for a price of $99 and start developing applications for iPhones. Unlike other Phones, Apple was keeping their phone isolated from third ...

Analysing Trends in Eductaion

The present corporate sector is concerned about the educational issues too as a part of its social responsibility. Being involved in the web development for educational institutions for over two decades, we thought of disseminating information on various dimensions of education from time-to-time to our constituency. We, AES Technologies India ...

Web2.0 Stuff

This is what I understand about Web 2.0: Web 2.0 is a trend which uses web as a platform to build collaborative applications of sharing nature - mostly hosted community solutions. Web 2.0 applications also use rich client side integrations using Ajax, light weight user interfaces with limited graphics built ...

Software as a Subscription Service

Finally Microsoft enters into ASP model. You need not buy your license for some of the softwares like Exchange server, Sharepoint etc. You can pay per month and use it. At present its in Beta, as every one keeps their buggy applications in the name of Beta! :-)You can visit ...

The most popular destination for offshore outsourcing

India is still the most popular outsourcing destination - Studies says. A telephonic survey was conducted by BDO Seidman LLP says, The most popular destination for offshore outsourcing among U.S. tech firms is India (60%), followed by Southeast Asia (50%); China (46%); Western Europe (21%); and Latin America (19%). The study adds, ...

Your business need a Mobile site

If you have a website for your business to reach millions of internet users, you should also consider a simplified version of your website for the Mobile phone browsers. Designing a mobile site is not a big deal. If you are not a web designer, You can easily do it ...

Tips for Email Efficiency

I regularly read the tips from the expert trainer for business writing, Ms.Lynn Gaertner-Johnston, who was the founder of the company called Syntax Training. She also conducts seminars on Business writing, and she shares some 26 tips. Read these 26 email tips from seminar participants. Then apply and share those that ...

Mobile development tools

There are plenty of tools are available in the Market for Mobile application and game development. Which one is your choice? I found few articles, which gives a list of tools for Windows mobile as well as Java (enabled) phones - I mean Windows CE.NET and Java ME (J2ME). Michael Juntao Yuan ...

Welcome!

Welcome to Macronimous web blog! This blog will be regularly updated by a team of web development professionals, including programmers, designers, SEO professionals. We will also post our thoughts on Mobile development and offshore development in India. We hope to keep this blog refreshed with news and thoughts - which will ...